| Show POLITENESS DOES NOT ALWAYS PAY PAYI I Warner M Van to Two Women Cost Him Twenty Eight Thousand Dollars PICKED UP WOMANS HANDBAG nother Alan Along Slipped Fell FeU on Ills Neck Begged Ills Pardon Ancl On New York Jan M Van Nordon NOlden president of the UIO Van Norden company compan Is poorer In pocket anti correspondingly wiser In judgment as to when to be f polite OlIte but cautious Wednesday da nIght Mr Van Norden went to the theater and later to the to wrIte sonic somo letters In a wallet In the pocket of hI his was wag In 1000 bills and In I bills and ono N O bill HIs letter wrIt wrItten written ten lie he stopped to the street whether to walk home 01 call a cab cabAs cabAs As he stood hesitating a Well dressed woman passed hIm and dropped her handbag Ir Van orden Norden steeped and picked It up As he stooped It a second woman stumbled stumbled bled on hIs Imis feet and In regaining her threw her arms about his neck There was ras It a moment or of con contusIon confusion fusion many apologies and then all ull three w vent nt their several ways was When Mr tr Van NOlden next morning transferred hIs pocketbook from his to hIs sack coat We ho noticed that it felt slim HIs 23 1000 were gone lie Ho reported the tho robbery to the tho police without dela delay anti and two arrests wed toon today The prisoners are Bps Bes Roberts alias KItty Domed Dowd alleged by time the police to be 00 No and May alias Margie WillIams No In the rogues gallery Both women are arc from ChIcago As soon as Inspector learned of Ute the he was suro fromn tIme the description or of time the two women given gIen b by Mr Van Norden that Ime hc knew them There Thero have been many complaints or of robbery on time the streets near the bg hotels but circumstances have been so humiliating that few vie Ic tires have havo cared to appear In court and the cases have not been pressed Time rhe Williams and Roberts women omen were vere arrested In front or of time the hotel The Tho Williams girl Is only 20 years ears old al always ways well dressed and Is pretty Time The Theother other woman Is older DId you ou speak to a man a little after 12 Thursday morning asked a detec tIe tive of the tho young ung woman Sure said the girl J I was M walk big ng with a frIend In front of the Wal when a gentleman passed whom I 1 thought I Ho He stopped and talked for a moment Yo We were mistaken and of course VC If Dowd trimmed that guy she held out on en one me I 1 was not wIse BessIe Roberts saId saidI r I never to strangers on tIme the street Mr 11 Van Nor Norden en however Identified both women and they have hac been held In ball each He hopes to re recover cover coor part of the tho money moner stolen as ho had taken the precaution to note noto the tho numbers of time the bills and 1000 bills are arc not caS easy to pass |
